Sandra Mendoza of Springdale, Ohio, and Pastor Alfredo Ortiz of Iglesia Jesucristo Rey de las Naciones in Lincoln Heights, Ohio, buckle her paraplegic son, Ricky Solis, into his car seat Feb. 8, 2018, for a more than two-hour trip to Mount Gilead, Ohio, so Mendoza could marry her fiancé, Yancarlos Mendez, in immigration detention.

Meg Vogel, The Cincinnati Enquirer

Married five days ago in a jailhouse wedding, a suburban Cincinnati man found himself Tuesday one step closer to deportation.

Yancarlos Mendez, 27, of Springdale, Ohio, was taken overnight to a federal detention center in Louisiana, the final move before he will be put on a plane for his native Dominican Republic. The Bayou State has three immigration detention centers in Basile, Jena and Oakdale, and his records did not come up in a search of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Online Detainee Locator System.

His lawyers confirmed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement decision to proceed with Mendez's removal. He overstayed a 90-day non-visa waiver by more than two years, according to agency officials.

Late Monday, lawyers Charleston Wang and Nazly Mamedova completed an emergency application for a stay of removal that says "irreparable harm will befall a 6-year-old paraplegic boy named Ricky Solis." The son of Mendez's wife, Sanda Mendoza, is now legally related to Mendez as his stepfather.

Mendez's lawyers submitted the application overnight to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She has jurisdiction over the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which this past week overturned its previous stay of Mendez's deportation.

Mendez, an auto mechanic, financially supported his fiancée and her son and has training from Cincinnati Children's Hospital staff to care for Ricky's extensive medical needs.

Ricky traveled last week with his mother and the family's ministers to the Morrow County Jail in Mount Gilead, Ohio, an hour north of Columbus, for the wedding. He was not allowed in the jail's secure area, where the ceremony took place.

Ricky was injured in a car crash a year ago in the Cincinnati suburb of Fairfield, Ohio. Mendez proposed shortly after the incident and lived in Ricky's hospital room with his fiancée for several months until the boy's release.

Mendez was detained and turned over to the federal government after he was stopped in November for driving without a license.

Couple married in jailhouse under threat of groom's deportation

Sandra Mendoza, 24, curls her eyelashes in her Springdale home Thursday, February 8, 2018. Mendoza prepares for her wedding to Yancarlos Mendez, 27, who is being held at Morrow County Jail with a removal order to return to the Dominican Republic. Mendez, a dual citizen of Spain and the Dominican Republic, was stopped for driving without a license. It was his second such offense.

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Sandra Mendoza, 24, curls her eyelashes in her Springdale home Thursday, February 8, 2018. Mendoza prepares for her wedding to Yancarlos Mendez, 27, who is being held at Morrow County Jail with a removal order to return to the Dominican Republic. Mendez, a dual citizen of Spain and the Dominican Republic, was stopped for driving without a license. It was his second such offense.